From 1868 O/S Plan X.15 - SC 360800
The Mill race is fed from upstream from the Glass which flows W-E north of the Mill bfore being joined by the Baldwin river flowing N-S - the Glass continues downstream to drive Woodside Mill and Mwillin-y-Chorrin
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From 1868 O/S Plan X.15 - SC 360800 The Mill race is fed from upstream from the Glass which flows W-E north of the Mill bfore being joined by the Baldwin river flowing N-S - the Glass continues downstream to drive Woodside Mill and Mwillin-y-Chorrin |
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Wm Cubbon in his lengthy study of Manx-made paper notes
There is in the Rolls Office a tithe-plan dated 1840 of 'Murray's Close and Part of Ballamillaghyn, the property of Mr. Robert Gelling; likewise the Paper Mill Premises' at Baldwin Vale. This is shown as the joint property of Robert Gelling and Anthony Lewthwaite, with a small plot of ground and a cottage between the mill and Ballaoates belonging to Miss Ann Lewthwaite. This Robert Gelling, whose father had built the mill, died at 'the Ballaoates Mill' on March 20th, 1849. His widow lived for many years afterwards in the cottage at the Baldwin Vale Mill.
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The Baldwin Vale Mill, of course, was worked by the Lewthwaites at the same period as their Laxey venture, and we find in Directories of 1851 and 1853 the following references: 1851, Laxey Lower Mill, John and Alexander Lewthwaite; 1853, John and Alexander Lewthwaite, Laxey and Mount Rule Paper Mills. Also in 1853 John Lewthwaite and his son Edward are described in the same Kirk Braddan Register as paper- makers.
T.M.Cowell in Baldwin My Valley states, though the O/S plan contradicts his description as between the two rivers:
Further down the road below the school is the bridge where the River Glass of West Baldwin joins the Baldwin River of East Baldwin. Between the two rivers is a wedge of flat meadow land and it was here that the Baldwin Vale Paper Mill was situated. It was also sometimes known as The Mount Rule Paper Mill. It was started early last century by the Gellings and the Lewthwaites, the latter keeping the mill going until 1901.
Paper of all kinds was made from old rags and ropes. There was white paper and brown paper produced, the white for magazines and newspapers. Special parchment for handwriting was also produced, this being used for legal and church documents and some can still be seen in the Records stored at the Rolls Office in Douglas. The Baldwin Vale (or Mount Rule) Paper Mill which was run by the Lewthwaite family from the early 1800s until 1901.
T.A. Bawden The Manx Paper-Making Industry Proc IoMNH&ASoc vol 7 #3 pp449 et seq 1976
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